>> One last comment on proplists. If we don't define a set of mandatory >> elements, then it's going to be really hard to use this >> pa_stream_new_extended() routine. How will the client figure out what >> exactly it needs to send for each format? > > I was thinking that his would basically develop as convention, though > the few basic properties (rate, channels) could be documented along with > the pa_encoding_t structure. We can document additional properties (for > example bitrate, if some sink ever needs it) as being optional but > recommended if available. To make things clearer I would add the sampling rate as a mandatory property in the RFC. the number of channels may be unknown before you actually decode, and for an IEC format the number of channels seen by PA is 2... -Pierre
